listen. president trump: nancy pelosi hands out subpoenas like they re cookies. i will tell you, when a jim and mark meadows, jim jordan and devin and all these people when they went to paul ryan to get a subpoena, paul would say well, let s take it easy. let s not this. it was impossible. you couldn t get a subpoena. she hands out subpoenas like they re cookies. bill: it was a clever line. i guess trying to just cut through this and understand it. give us perspective on where the investigation of the investigators is today. what has moved forward, sir? so what i would remind the president had it mostly right but also what he didn t talk about was how d.o.j. and f.b.i. continually blocked our subpoenas. we had very targeted subpoenas and oftentimes they would use the mueller team, for example, as the reason why they couldn t
and i certainly hope that he will prove those of us on the committee who are skeptical of those commitments wrong. in my questioning of bill barr on his confirmation hearing i reminded him that elliott richardson in a confirmation hearing before the same xhirkts the senate judiciary committee, asked very similar questions as he was, gave crisp concise clear simple answers, didn t hedge, didn t talk about, well, in the best interest of and given the balancing, he simply said yes to a number of critical questions that attorney general barr found it much harder to be concise and clear about. so my hope is he will overcome that tendency and instead will demonstrate a commitment to full transparency. one thing that was in the letter that i found encouraging, lawrence, was a commitment on his part that he would continue consulting with robert mueller. it is certainly the case if there s any hint or suggestion on our part that the report that we get is overly redacted or is concealing some cr
though certainly what he s saying in the letter is his ambition on this is full disclosure and that the public interest is definitely something that he believes is absolutely already here in this case and should be honored. that s what he s saying in writing anyway. that s what he s saying. and lawrence, here s an opportunity for attorney general william barr to show himself to be an institutionalist, someone who cares more about the department of justice, its reputation and the rule of law than he does about any partisan political advantage. and i certainly hope that he will prove those of us on the committee who are skeptical of those commitments wrong. in my questioning of bill barr on his confirmation hearing i reminded him that elliott richardson in a confirmation hearing before the same committee, the senate judiciary committee, asked very similar questions as he was, gave crisp concise clear simple answers, didn t hedge, didn t talk about, well, in the best interest of and g
didn t talk about, well, in the best interest of and given the balancing, he simply said yes to a number of critical questions that attorney general barr found it much harder to be concise and clear about. so my hope is he will overcome that tendency and instead will demonstrate a commitment to full transparency. one thing that was in the letter that i found encouraging, lawrence, was a commitment on his part that he would continue consulting with robert mueller. it is certainly the case if there s any hint or suggestion on our part that the report that we get is overly redacted or is concealing some critical elements of mueller s work that i think we can count on chairman nadler and the house to promptly call for both barr and mueller to appear in front of the house judiciary committee. i would hope that chairman graham would do the same in the senate. senator coons, just on that point, i want to double underline that. that passage that refers to the attorney general conferring with
when you get this ef-3 potential. it was in the air yesterday. the humidity was there. the cold air is in place. obviously, it has been snowing in boston all night long. that s the cold air, the warm air. you need the clash to get this type of weather and it was in place. i know the chasers said it is still too early for this is a brand new tornado alley. this is exactly the time of year that we need be very cosh world series it. many times these storms will continue into the overnight and dark hours when people go to sleep and they don t expect them. they don t hear the sirens. they were asleep. at least last night the storms did die off around 8:00 or 9:00. the last storm was near cairo, georgia. there are a lot of towns we didn t talk about. there were 36 tornadoes on the